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It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
Writer
Buck Fever
Everything
Control
Sons
Nothing
Father
Fathers
Always
True
Fixed
Men
Seems
Changing
Life
Women
Relationships
Littles
Son
May
Emotional
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